Trump is now caught in the oldest trap of modern warfare – believing a swift, surgical military operation will yield quick, enduring political results. The Soviets did it in Afghanistan; the US in Iraq in 2003; Putin did it in Ukraine, and is still fighting. Whatever force a military fails or succeeds in applying at the start, the people it is attacking have greater commitment to defending their lands and homes.

The White House may have rushed into this, seizing the opportunity for a decapitation strike, provided by Israeli intelligence. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has very different objectives regionally, and a long US involvement against Tehran suits his desire for an Iran in rolling collapse that is no longer a threat. But the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on February 28 has caused as many problems as it has solved.

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      And all he had to do was make life less soul-crushing economically, and people would have gladly lined up behind him to support anything he wants to do, no matter how awful.

      But they’re not. They’re poor and starving, so he’s losing everyone, including his own coalition.

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    Well, now we all know what happens when you make a felon rapist pedo the most influential person on the planet.

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    Trump can’t even end his own bowel movements, it just randomly starts, leaks, and stops. I am sorry, but expecting him to control anything when he can’t control his own bowels is an awfully big ask.

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    I don’t see why he’d want it to stop. He’s been actively destroying the US for the overwhelming majority of his presidency. If he benefits the US at large, it’s major news to me. A stone rolling downhill shouldn’t be news.

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      He’s been actively destroying the US for the overwhelming majority of his presidency.

      What makes Putin very happy despite losses in Ukraine.

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    Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please – Niccolo Machiavelli

    Orange fucker deserves what’s coming to him.

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    Calling it now, when striking military targets fails to get surrender, we will switch to war crimes, Israel and then the US will start hitting water, food, and transportation infrastructure.

    The only way to get victory from this war is genocide.

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      You’re about 2 weeks too late for that, US&Israel have committed multiple war crimes already.

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      They already have been. I know that at least one water desalination plant was hit. Civilian fuel infrastructure has been hit. The US openly stated they’re going to try to cripple their industrial capacity. Seems the US has adopted Israel’s Dahiya doctrine which targets civilian infrastructure. I think Trump said once the US is done there will be nobody left to surrender…

      “At some point I don’t think there will be anybody left, maybe to say ‘we surrender.’ They’re being decimated.”

      • Donald Trump
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    “War is not some kind of a video game.” Nor it is a WWE episode.

    Bastard now gonna have a “holy war” in his hands, and already happening almost at his doorstep.

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    It is pretty endable. We just give them our republican leaders and any democrat leaders that were in favor.

    There will be some sort of financial reimbursement.

    Might be able to spin it around and offer college admission to their students to help bridge the damage.

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      Operation Payback: rounding up all political leaders who allowed this to happen and shipping them to Iran and letting them deal with punishment.

      Considering they have been shipping innocents around the world to be locked up in prisons without due process, they kind of deserve it.

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        I second that plan. We are going to need to make serious amends on the world stage if we want to repair relations, and that sounds like a good start. Hold the parties responsible for all of this.

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    Of course he can by doing what he does best. Not caring about those he made promises to and pulling all US troops out. The israeli fourth reich will make that difficult but otherwise he will just abandon everyone.

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    Trump, as an individual may not have a way out. Remember, Epstein was Mossad-trained and probably shared a lot of useful dirt with Israel.

    But there is always a path to peace; and in this case it starts with the US backing off. Iran doesn’t have much capacity for war beyond protecting itself.

    Exactly the same as how there’s a way for Russia to have peace in Ukraine.

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    Israel said that it worked for them, and all they want is sufficient disruption to continue their own invasions. Trump is the fool for so so many reasons.

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    That fat cunt is unable to keep it’s trousers clean from it’s own shit.

    So how the fuck anyone thinks that that waffling pile of dementia riddled syphilis can unfuck the murdering of schoolgirls in this Epstein war is laughable at best.